2. In terms of FOSS, I don't think competition really gets in our way — it's the burden of ownership. We can agree to come together and build something, but the long run of FOSS projects can be depressing (one star reviews, demands for free help), and it seems less stressful to just... not.
1. Dynamics of venture capital mean that startups try to use news as a growth accelerator. If they succeed they become too expensive for news or worse, try to incept the news. Failure is by design much more common. Maybe the worst outcome is acquisition.
Two things I kept thinking at #npasummit when @werd.io and @damon.kiesow.net talked community and FOSS
Final thought: Fun way to beat jet lag. Feeling like Project Indigo’s auto mode consistently underexposes, but I will have to play with it more. Strava route here: strava.app.link/siKZ1qKArUb
Ran out 13.1 just for fun and ended at an appropriately American spot. Batting cages in London?
11.3 Kensington Palace and Queen Victoria
10.8 Peter Pan and back in Hyde Park
9.1 London Business School, where I was an exchange student
8 Marble Arch
7.15 Hyde Park Corner
6.7 Buckingham Palace
6.5 St. James Park
6.2 Churchill (all following are posted later, I went into airplane mode because my phone was also my map)
6.1 Westminster, Big Ben, Parliament, 20% battery and pretty far to go!
5.6 Nelson’s Column
5.4 Chinatown
4.75 The British Museum
4.4 Red Lion Square, site of my first work trip to London in 2009
3.2 St. Paul’s Cathedral. Wow these churches are close.
3.1 St. Mary-le-Bow
2.86 Bank of England
2.78 Monument to the Great Fire
2.35 Southwark Cathedral
2.25 London Bridge station and the Shard. Restroom break.
1.97 Tower of London and City of London
1.62 Tower Bridge
0.66 Christ Church Spitalfields
0.44
Mile 0.35 in a city that likes bikes
“Infinite Accumulation” is the real mile 0
